Gas stove



(No Model.)

'J. H. CARRINGTON;

GAS STOVE.

Patentd Jan. 28, 1890.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. CARRINGTON, NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAS-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,225, dated January28, 1890. Application filed November 16, 1889. Serial No. 330,617. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. CARRINGTON, of New York, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Gas-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in gas heating-stoves; andit has for its object to provide an illuminated gas-stove, or stove inwhich the reflection from the flame is made to light up and give apleasing effect to an illuminated transparent shell placed within theforaminated or woven-wire casing forming the body of the stove. It hasbeen common to employ a bright metal reflector in gas-stoves; but thesebecome tarnished, and besides do not produce an effect visible from allsides of the stove.

My invention consists of a shell made in the shape of a cone or dome andformed of transparent material, preferably of different colors, so as toform a pleasing and mellow glow from the reflected light received frombelow, and which is visible through the foraminated casing from allsides of the stove, as hereinafter fully described.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the stove. Fig. 2 is a partial verticalsection of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail of the illuminated shell appliedto the top of the stove; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view, on a largerscale, of another mode of constructing the shell.

A represents a cast-iron base formed with legs B.

D is a foraminated plate forming a grate.

F is the burner coiled just above the grate.

G is a cylindrical or other shaped casing made of closely-perforatedsheet metal or wire-gauze, and E is a cast-iron cap resting upon the topof the cylindrical casing. Within this casing and supported adjustablyat various heights, if desired, is a transparent shell G, shaped,preferably, either like a truncated cone or a rounded dome and open atits top and bottom. This shell is supported from the inner walls of theouter casing, either upon lugs projecting from the casing, which may beeither stationary or adjustable, as shown, or upon hooks attached to thecasing, or it may be suspended by a chain from the cap E. The shell isconstrncted something after the manner of an illuminated lamp-shade withrich transparent coloring. It may be made of mica, porcelain, or coloredglass, or it may be of fine this conical or dome-shaped shell, and thewhole shell becomes illuminated with a glow that is clearly andbrilliantly visible through the outer casing from all sides. This shellalso serves an important mechanical function, for as the hot currents ofair ascending by convection reach the shell the contracted passagethrough it serves to check or choke the upward passage of airtherethrough in a measure, and compels a portion, of the heated orexpanded air to be forced through the meshes or perforations of theouter casing below the cone and at a point nearer the floor, where theheat is most to be desired. The remaining portions of hot air passthrough the opening at the top of the cone, and striking the cap E aredeflected through the meshes or perforations of the outer casing abovethe cone. In this way the stove is made to heat uniformly from bottom totop, an excessive heat at the top is avoided, and the heat iskept downin the lower portion of the room, where it does the most good. I mayapply the illuminated shell to the top of the outer casing, as shown inFig. 3, instead of to the middle portion.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a gas-stove, the combination, with the foraminated or woven-wirecasing and a subjacent burner, of an illuminated shell placed above theburner within the circumference of the casing, substantially as shownand described.

2. A gasstove having above its'burner an illuminated shell surrounded byan outer casing of foraminated sheet metal or woven or near its middle,substantially as shown wire, substantially as shown and described. anddescribed.

3. In a gas-stove the combination with Q the foraminated or-zvoven-wirecasing and a JAMES CARRINGTON' 5 subjacent burner, of a c0ne-shaped 0rccn- Witnesses:

verging shell having its larger end at the bot- EDW. WV. BYRN,

tom and sustained upon the outer casing at- SOLON O. KEMON.

